Mods/Vassago's Dirge

You're alone. A bed - a hospital room. Fragments of memory: the derelict station. Your breath, loud against your helmet faceplate. Shivans moving against the hull. Mjolnir fire - green flame cut into the Capella sky. [i]Orpheus.[/i] The Shivan destroyer. [b]Vassago.[/b] There are men here now. GTI. They have questions. Vassago's Dirge is a 6 playable mission campaign about hunting down the SD Vassago and the mysteries that surround it. It takes place during the main FreeSpace 2 campaign, after the first Sathanas was destroyed and as the GTVA pursues Admiral Bosch and the Iceni in the mysterious nebula. [hr] [b]Selected Reviews[/b]: [i]"One of the most compelling, atmospheric, artistic mods the community has seen, delivered by an auteur and a peerless FREDder. Like the titular dirge, it is both beautiful and funereal - a desaturated journey into the most compelling and unearthly parts of the FreeSpace universe. There are moments in this campaign that will shock, and others - more disturbing yet - that will chill you with their unsettling, eerie familiarity."[/i] ~ General Battuta [i]"I'm still trying to wrap my head around everything I just saw, but what I do know is that this was a masterstroke. There were elements in here that I didn't even know the engine was capable of handling. The soundtrack utilization was nothing short of genius, and the introduction of that style added an atmosphere to the campaign that I've never experienced before. The missions were insanely varied for such a short campaign, often challenging but never outright unfair. And the implications raised by the story are something I'll be chewing on for a long time."[/i] ~ Mongoose [hr] [b]Credits[/b]: [i]Story & Mission Design[/i] Axem [i]Editing[/i] Cobra [i]Beta Testing[/i] Spoon General Battuta 0rph3us NGTMR-1 Dragon Cobra [i]Models[/i] Axem - GTC Cretheus The FSPort Team - GTI Polaris Nico/Venom - Shivan aldo14 - Spacesuit StratComm/Mikhael - Mjnolir (though I don't know who rotated it) [i]Effects/Maps[/i] The Scroll of Atankharzim Team - Mission Loading Bar Lt Cannonfodder - Planets Black Wolf - HeadAnis HerraTohtori - Skybox [i]Voice Acting[/i] Organized by Admiral Nelson Dekker - CAPT White Iain Baker - CAPT Sibelius Andreas Rybak - Alpha 3 Goober5000 - SAR 2 Special thanks to Paraspacer for a new Vasudan translator method [i]Sounds[/i] Volition - Vassago Beam, Comm Node Beam, Beeping XPlane - Annoying Beep Sound Leady (from freesound.org) - Breathing Sound Effect - http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=26723 [i]Music[/i] composed by... [i]Sergei Rachmaninov[/i] - Piano Concerto No. 2 (Mainhall, M1, M2, M7, M9, Credits) - Symphony No.1 (M3) - Piano Concerto No. 3 (M4, M5 Briefing, M5) - Symphonic Dances for Orchestra (M6) - Symphonic Dances for 2 Pianos (M6) - Isle of the Dead (M7 Briefing) - Prelude in C-Sharp Major (M8) - Fragments (Debrief Success) - Song Without Words (Debrief Average) [i]Pyotr Tchaikovsky[/i] - Marche Slave (M2 Briefing) [i]Alexander Borodin[/i] - In the Steppes of Central Russia (M3 Briefing) [i]Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov[/i] - Russian Easter Festival Overture (M6 Briefing) [i]Special Thanks[/i] StarSlayer - for helping getting me started with the story Spoon - for providing a daily dose of earworm Jpop songs Snail - for finding me a model I didn't use in the end (sorry buddy) FUBAR and karajorma - FREDding assistance General Battuta - Free Association FREDding inspiration Fury - for letting me test the 3.6.12 mediavps and letting me integrate it into the mod before release Backslash - for coding in a fix to a problem at the very end MjnMixael - for creating revised CB-Animations #hard-light - for letting me pepper you with questions that would influence the campaign SCP Team - for awesome additions to FreeSpace that made all of this possible Volition - for making an awesome game!